Fast forward
Two young researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have won this year's Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software for their FFTW (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West) software....
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Net deficit
Censorship, access restrictions and high prices are stunting the growth of the internet in the Middle East and North Africa. But its value as an education and information tool will ensure its...
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Role for outsider in giving students a fair hearing
Students are paying customers now and, as predicted, they are becoming more exacting. In this they are being egged on by the National Union of Students and, more indirectly, by the government and the...
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When realism means accepting ethnic splits
In that elusive ideal world, a multicultural, bilingual University of Pristina would be a highly desirable engine for rebuilding Kosovo's shattered society. But inflexible pursuit of this aim by the...
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Students deserve more than a warm welcome
If the United Kingdom is to attract larger numbers of overseas students, it needs to put its money where its mouth is, argues Clive Saville It took the prime minister's encounter with the mayor of...
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Pink man sees red
Why is it that white academics studying black culture have such a hard time, asks Alan Rice Usually when you land a book contract what you feel is euphoria. That is certainly what I felt when my book...
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Innocence amid TVU slaughter
Thames Valley may have had problems with its management, but Geoffrey Alderman is unconvinced by attacks on its academic record In the summer of 1997 the Quality Assurance Agency undertook a special...
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Derby dumbs down to gain Israeli cash
Derby University has been admitting students to degree courses in Israel without agreed minimum entry qualifications and has withheld details of its operations from the Israeli regulating authority,...
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What about English?
Once again five historians have been elected to the British Academy (Glittering prizes, THES, July 9), but only one member of an English department. Should an organisation that accepts public funding...
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Cosmic calamity
Your treatment of the cosmic impact threat ("Threats from deep space require deep thinking", THES, July 16) confuses two aspects of the problem. One is the detection and cataloguing of potential...
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Cosmic calamity
Your question, "If nuclear weapons are the only way of diverting an incoming asteroid, is it worth keeping them in existence for the purpose, or would it be safer on balance to disarm and risk the...
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Cosmic calamity
According to the Duckworth Riskometer ("Odds in the game of life", THES, July 9), the risk factor due to asteroid impacts is more than five times that of taking a 100-mile rail journey and only...
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PhD jobs crisis
Rebecca Stott's article on the lack of proper training or careers advice for English literature postgraduates ("No jobs for the boys ... or girls," THES, July 16) struck a chord. For the past three...
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PhD jobs crisis
The DPhil programme needs to include other training opportunities for postgraduates. The main reason I embarked on one was that I hoped I would have the opportunity to teach in higher education while...
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PhD jobs crisis
I am 24 and my supervisor is looking at the first draft of my PhD thesis in English. I have spent two of the past three years as a hall tutor dealing with unpleasant situations, ranging from...